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Bar Mitzvah at Zerrennerstrasse Synagogue
A bar mitzvah at the liberal Zerrennerstrasse synagogue in Pforzheim, Germany, 1936.
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- History
Language
English — USUpdated
![Boy reads Torah while surrounded by adults during bar mitzvah](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-06/Bar%20Mitzvah%20at%20Zerrennerstrasse%20Synagogue.jpg?itok=movVAo5X)
Ludwig Nachmann, the president of the congregation, follows the Torah reading during a bar mitzvah at the liberal Zerrennerstrasse synagogue in Pforzheim, Germany, 1936.
Credit:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stadtarchiv Pforzheim
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